The British-sponsored youth counterculture rejected any commitment to scientific or technological progress, prefering instead to adopt a "lifestyle" based on use of "mind-expanding" drugs in order to achieve some sort of "self-actualization." Any form of "spiritualism" would do, as long as there were plenty of "touchy-feely" interludes to be had.
I must digress, just to see how perverse this has become: The openly Satanic and utterly psychotic Brit, Ozzie Osbourne, is headlining this year's voodoo fest in New Orleans. Cool, huh?
The Summer of Love turned really ugly at Altamont. The same grunge group that had appeared on Ed Sullivan with, "I kaint git no..."; the same group that went on to record "Her Majesty's Satanic Delight" (for which the lead vocalist was subsequently knighted by her Satanic majesty herself); this same group, performing before thousands, watched as their security (a bunch of Hell's Angels) beat a retarded black guy to death with pool cues.
What had been born at Woodstock, was pronounced dead at Altamont. Cont...
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